St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-06
LABOR NOTES.

The bakers have sixty unions and o.
600 members
The 5000 brewers of Cincinnati who
are knights have withdrawn from the order be-
cause of the temperance plank in the new con-
stitution.
Michigan Labor paper says there are
$4,000 knights in the State and that 5000 never
heard their platform read, 5000 do not believe
its propositions, and $1,000 vote against it.
The aggregate loss to the building
trades of Chicago by strikes is S100O0,00o. The
boot and shoemakers have lost between $4,000
600 and $6,OO0,O0O during the past year.
The European immigration agencies
are translating brilliant descriptions of the
condition of American mechanics. laborers
and farmers for the benefit of those they want
to bring to this side.
There are 10000 to $4,000 men en-
ployed at the Woolwch arsenal, England,
which covers $50 acres, exclusive of the dock
yards. There are seven miles of railway. There
are eighty chimney stacks, one of which is $40
feet high.
During the past six months 361 saw
and planing-mils have been started in the
South, which will work up 5OO,0OO.OOO feet OF
lumber. The increase is going on. Lumber
men think too rapid progress is being made.
Lumber is a trife higher all around in the
West.
During the first half of the last four
years, beginning with 1888, the number OF
buildings erected in New York was respect
lively $685. 2 45S, 1904 and ,739; and the sums
invested were, in round figures, $47.OOO,OO S3S,-
100000, S27,OOO,OOO and $29,0OO,0O0. This years
investments are twenty-eight per cent. ahead
of last year.
Architects are predicting very busy
fall and winter. Much interior church, office
and residence renovation will be done after the
outdoor season shall have been closed. The
alteration of house fronts, leading architects
say, will soon become very important feature,
and each house will be made to look different
from its neighbor.
The falling away from the Knights OF
Labor will likely decimate that organization.
Those withdrawing entertained misconcep-
ton as to the aims and methods of the organlZa-
ton. Trades-unonism will profit by the de-
lection, and the Knights will hold powerful
nucleus for another advance when work shall
be scarce and wages lower.
The window-glass output for the past
year was 2,7s0.0OO boxes, out of LOCO pots, OF
250000 boxes over the previous year. There
are 1,143 pots in all, and 139 are being built, OF
which 100 are in the West. The 1,150 pots that
will run during the coming year, beginning in
September, will turn out 100000 boxes, which
is double the capacity of 1884,
During the past six months there were
5o3 strikes reported, involving 234,73i persons.
against 200 strikes for the first six months last
year, involving 1895 persons. Of the former
63.4O0 were in the building trades, and 51,739 in
transportation. In iron and steel mills there
were only 14,0O0 strikers, lumber, go; molders,
l0.25S; boot and shoe workmen, 17,495. This
year only 1880 workmen in the machinery
trades struck, last year to date, 32,100, and
among the lumbermen the number reached
10000. Among clothing manufacturers, the
number this year was 2,736 last year to date,
1880. This year 5000 coal and coke miners
struck, last year, $1,000.